Analysis of Variability in Car-Following Behavior Over Long-Term Driving Maneuvers

Title of Document: ANALYSIS OF VARIABILITY IN CAR-FOLLOWING BEHAVIOR OVER LONG-TERM DRIVING MANEUVERS Taehyung Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Directed By: Associate Professor David J. Lovell Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The main goal of this dissertation has been to contribute to a better understanding of car-following behavior, and more specifically, on the variability in car-following behavior that is commonly observed in naturalistic driving situations. This dissertation includes a thorough review of the literature in this area in which some important limitations of current car-following experimental studies and models, which make them inconsistent with naturalistic driving behavior under car-following situations, were investigated. A new data collection system using an instrumented test vehicle, with a synchronized user interface and data acquisition program coupled with two separate CAN networks, GPS, inertial distance measuring instrument, and digital video, has been developed to produce a sufficient quality and quantity of data on real

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